Re: [Duplicity-talk] TimeoutError

[edgar . soldin]

hey Vera,

simply connect to your hidrive via command line as root first, either sftp or 
ssh will do and the file will be created.

..schösono ede

On 15.01.2023 13:59, Vera Schmidt via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hi all together,
>
> told and done....
> Now I tried an upload with sftp and got an error: BackendException: ssh 
> connection to USER@sftp.hidrive.strato.com:22 failed: [Errno 2] No such file or 
> directory: '/root/.ssh/known_hosts'
>
> I couldn't find a file named known_hosts.
>
> At the manpage http://duplicity.us/stable/duplicity.1.html#url-format the 
> requirements for ssh paramiko backend (default) are paramiko (SSH2 for python) 
> and pycrypto (Python Cryptography Toolkit).
> So I think to use sftp I have to install these additional components. Correct?
>
> Like always 1000 thanks in advance to everybody helping
>
> Vera
>
> Am 14.01.23 um 17:01 schrieb Vera Schmidt via Duplicity-talk:
> > Hey ede,
> >
> > thanks again.
> >
> > > yeah, well. to make it even more difficult. there are not only different 
> > > protocols (e.g. sftp, ftp, s3, webdav ...), there are also different 
> > > implementations that have to work against different implementations on the 
> > > servers, meaning in theorie there is a spec to be uphold, but might be 
> > > implemented slighty different or sometimes incompletely on either side.
> >
> > ....software in reality....
> >
> > > still you may think about switching protocols as webdav really is stateless 
> > > http/https and therefor suboptimal for big datatransfers. looking at this
> > >   
> > > https://www.strato.de/faq/cloud-speicher/ueber-welche-protokolle-kann-ich-mich-mit-hidrive-verbinden/
> > > i'd suggest you switch to sftp, which is modern, secure and quite robust.
> >
> > That's what I thought after all: changing the protocol to sftp. Don't know why 
> > I didn't concider to do this before - probably because I started with webdav 
> > and it worked over years. And being busy most of the time the concept of never 
> > changing a running system seems to be a very good concept :-)
> > And now it seems to be the moment when the system is no longer running and it 
> > is time to change it :-)
> >
> > Vera
> >
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